{"id":205175,"date":"2020-02-19T02:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/pge-union-warns-bernie-sanders-against-bird-brained-state-takeover\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T02:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:30:46","slug":"pge-union-warns-bernie-sanders-against-bird-brained-state-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/pge-union-warns-bernie-sanders-against-bird-brained-state-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&#038;E Union Warns Bernie Sanders Against \u2018Bird-Brained\u2019 State Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; PG&amp;E Corp.\u2019s biggest union is pushing back against Bernie Sanders\u2019 criticism of the embattled California power company, claiming the senator and presidential candidate supports a $100 billion state takeover of the utility.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245 follows a new Sanders ad in California last week that blasted PG&amp;E for sparking the deadly wildfires that pushed it into bankruptcy last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 video, which comes as the state gears up for its March 3 primary, includes comments from fire victims and local activists who suggest that PG&amp;E customers would be better served if the utility was in public hands. An online petition funded by his campaign also calls for a public takeover of the utility.<\/p>\n<p>In local newspaper ads slated to run Tuesday, the union describes a state seizure of PG&amp;E a \u201cbird-brained idea\u201d that would lead to higher energy rates and wouldn\u2019t guarantee that PG&amp;E operates in a safer manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Sanders, you are just plain wrong on this,\u201d Tom Dalzell, business manager for the union, says in a video ad posted Tuesday. \u201cPublicly-owned utilities are capable of greatness. But they are also capable of bad management and bad luck, just the same as investor-owned utilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IBEW Local 1245, which represents 12,000 PG&amp;E workers, says in its video that a public takeover would threaten union pensions, be expensive for the state and expose it to future wildfire liabilities. The union estimates that turning PG&amp;E into a government-run utility would cost $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>No Magic Words<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 campaign shot back, saying \u201cgreed and corruption\u201d at PG&amp;E have led to the neglect of California\u2019s power grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot keep letting corporate profits stand in the way of safety and action on climate change,\u201d Josh Orton, Sanders\u2019 National Policy Director, said in a statement. \u201cBernie has a plan to transition to renewable energy and create millions of good-paying union jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"g:b12e548b-42f4-3098-8315-87bf24f7fc6a;elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>The IBEW local, which also represents members of government-owned power companies in Northern California, has been vocal in its opposition to public ownership of PG&amp;E. Some of its members staged a protest recently in San Francisco when a state lawmaker introduced of a bill that would turn PG&amp;E into a government-run utility. The union has also opposed a move by San Francisco to buy out PG&amp;E\u2019s power network within the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t Cinderella,\u201d Dalzell says in the video. \u201cThere are no magic words that would change the fact that PG&amp;E operates in high fire-risk areas at a time of serious climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Disclaimer: Michael Bloomberg is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. He is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News).<\/p>\n<p>(Adds comment from Sanders campaign beginning in seventh paragraph.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;With assistance from Emma Kinery.<\/p>\n<p>To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Chediak in San Francisco at mchediak@bloomberg.net<\/p>\n<p>To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Ryan at jryan173@bloomberg.net, Pratish Narayanan<\/p>\n<p>For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92020 Bloomberg L.P.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/pg-e-union-warns-bernie-134500520.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] (Bloomberg) &#8212; PG&amp;E Corp.\u2019s biggest union is pushing back against Bernie Sanders\u2019 criticism of the embattled California power company, claiming the senator and presidential candidate supports a $100 billion state takeover of the utility. The campaign by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245 follows a new Sanders ad in California last week &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}